The Guardian view on US abortion laws: freedoms hanging by a thread

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Increased reproductive freedoms, including access to contraception as well as abortion, were one of that movement's great gains.
41% : By outsourcing enforcement of its abortion ban to private citizens, who since September have been allowed to sue anyone who helps a woman obtain an abortion, Texas legislators have sought "to evade the traditional mechanisms for judicial review", the suit states.
37% : Unlike in other countries that restrict abortion, there are no exemptions for pregnancies that result from rape or incest, or for teenage girls.
36% : The announcement by the US supreme court that Texas's new law banning abortions after six weeks would be allowed to stand, until it hears the federal government's case against it on 1 November, was a blow to anyone hoping that the court might block attempts to remove women's constitutional right to abortion.
33% : For decades, states that oppose abortion have worked to undermine this right, with poor and black women far more likely to be caught in legislative traps designed to punish women whose pregnancies do not result in live births.

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